Monet

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From a French surname which was derived from either HAMON or EDMOND. This was the surname of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).

HAMON   male   Medieval English
Variant of HAMO.
HAMO   male   Medieval English
Norman form of HAIMO. The Normans brought this name to Britain.
HAIMO   male   Ancient Germanic
Short form of names beginning with the Germanic element heim meaning "home".
EDMOND   male   French
French form of EDMUND. A notable bearer was the English astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742), for whom Halley's comet is named.
EDMUND   male   English, German, Polish
From the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and mund "protection". This was the name of two Anglo-Saxon kings of England. It was also borne by two saints, including a 9th-century king of East Anglia who, according to tradition, was shot to death with arrows after refusing to divide his Christian kingdom with an invading pagan Danish leader. This Old English name remained in use after the Norman conquest (even being used by king Henry III for one of his sons), though it became less common after the 15th century.

Famous bearers of the name include the English poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), the German-Czech philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) and New Zealand mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), the first person to climb Mount Everest.
OTHER FORMS
ANCIENT GERMANIC: Haimo
ANGLO-SAXON: Eadmund
DANISH: Heino
DUTCH: Heino
ENGLISH: Ed, Eddie, Eddy, Edmund, Hamnet, Ned
ESTONIAN: Heino
FINNISH: Heino
FRENCH: Edmé, Edmée, Edmond
GERMAN: Edmund, Heino
HUNGARIAN: Ödi, Ödön
IRISH: Éamon, Eamon, Éamonn
ITALIAN: Edmonda, Edmondo
LIMBURGISH: Edmao, Mao
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH: Hamo, Hamon
POLISH: Edmund
PORTUGUESE: Edmundo
SPANISH: Edmundo